Article February 26, 1944 Issue

The True Morale Builder

FLORENCE L. KAUFFMAN

In "Miscellaneous Writings" by Mary Baker Eddy we read (p. 85), "Temptation, that mist of mortal mind which seems to be matter and the environment of mortals, suggests pleasure and pain in matter; and, so long as this temptation lasts, the warfare is not ended and the mortal is not regenerated." Only when the so-called pleasures are of such a nature as to dim out good from conscious thinking do they decrease the activities of virtue and increase the likelihood of wrong tendencies. Eventually, if unopposed, they black out that which should be foremost, the radiant consciousness of purity and Life.

Intoxicating liquor is an unquestionable evil. Indulgence in liquor develops an increasing dependence upon material sense for morale and upon unwholesomeness for satisfaction.

Recently, however, liquor has been dignified with the label of "morale builder." Have you been deceived by the current propaganda proclaiming whisky the emancipator of inhibitions and a cocktail the liberator of the tongue? Perhaps, again, the propaganda covering your territory may have been of a more sympathetically persuasive type, endeavoring to entice you into drinking intoxicants that you might become oblivious to impending danger and fear of the future.

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